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The poor doubting Christian drawn to Christ. Wherein the main hindrances, which keep men…
The poor doubting Christian drawn to Christ. Wherein the main hindrances, which keep men from coming to Christ, are discovered. : With special helps to recover God's favour. / By Thomas Hooker. ; With an abstract of the author's life. ; [Four lines from Isaiah]
Boston: printed by Green for D. Henchman, 1743
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. It hinders the Work of Faith. Mark what follows: Hope thou in God. As if he ⟨p. 109⟩had said, Leave those Distempers of Heart, and rest upon the Freeness of GOD'S Grace.
3. David yet looks up to GOD for Mercy: For he is yet my God. The virtue of this Rule we find by Experience; especially in melancholy Persons, when they have swarms of Thoughts buzzing in their Minds; Sometimes restless Fears, that do chase their Hearts, as the Hound does the Deer in the Forest; and after this comes another Affection, and after that another; and so at last they come all together: Sometimes the Horror of a Man's Conscience makes Hue and Cry after him, and makes him say, Oh how my Heart smites me! Methought I saw Hell gaping for me, and the Devil even standing at my Elbow, ready to carry me down to everlasting Destruction: This makes his Soul to have such an Amazement and Ghastliness of Spirit, that he cannot reach the Promise of GOD. Well, take the LORD'S Advice by the Prophet: Exod. 14.13. Fear not, but stand still, and see the Salvation of the Lord: That is, lay aside those restless Imaginations, and those Crowds of foolish Conceits; stand still, and be quiet, and with the Eye of Faith behold the Salvation of God.
3. David yet looks up to GOD for Mercy: For he is yet my God. The virtue of this Rule we find by Experience; especially in melancholy Persons, when they have swarms of Thoughts buzzing in their Minds; Sometimes restless Fears, that do chase their Hearts, as the Hound does the Deer in the Forest; and after this comes another Affection, and after that another; and so at last they come all together: Sometimes the Horror of a Man's Conscience makes Hue and Cry after him, and makes him say, Oh how my Heart smites me! Methought I saw Hell gaping for me, and the Devil even standing at my Elbow, ready to carry me down to everlasting Destruction: This makes his Soul to have such an Amazement and Gastliness of Spirit, that he cannot reach the Promise of GOD. Well, take the LORD'S Advice by the Prophet: